Welcome to COMMON SENSE

The Wit, Opinion and Irreverent Humor of the Contrarian Planner

A collection of over 100 essays by Richard H. Carson

  A Collection of Published Essays on the Policies and the Politics

  of Land Use Planning, the Environment, Citizen Involvement, the No

  Growth Movement, Development and much, much more!

Launch: November 1, 2001         Update:   Everytime I write

Common Sense

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Preface

Rich Carson was recently filmed for the Public Broadcasting System documentary "Making Sense of Place." It is a three-part story of land use planning in America featuring  the Phoenix, Cleveland and Portland-Vancouver metropolitan areas. The film company is Northern Light Productions out of Boston, Massachusetts. The Portland-Vancouver program will air in spring 2009.

                     RIch Carson's essays are also available on:

Questia.com

Planetizen

Planum

City Matters

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